This is for those on the fence about buying, that are skeptical of these gaskets being reusable.
They are buy you Gotta be careful during header removal. You can remove your headers over and over without destroying the fragile gasket material as some here seem to have done and thus contend that they aren’t reusable. It’s all in “the method of removal”
You crack all six bolts “just” barely loose. As in “still finger tight”
Then use a rubber mallet or dead blow hammer and rap on the front and rear edge of flanges/pipes parallel with the engine to “crack” the gasket loose from the flat surface of the head. There may be a thin residue of the carbon gasket material still stuck to the head, there may not be, but if any remains it is insignificant.The gasket remains sound. Consider it as leaving a layer of its skin.
Don’t remove all the bolts and drop or pull the header away. That is a sure way to rip them as to be non-reusable. I’ve removed my headers at least six times (as well as the collector extensions for strip time, too many times to remember) over a little over three years time and much run time and they are still going strong. Intact and sealing. If you’re ripping them you ain’t doing it correct.
They are buy you Gotta be careful during header removal. You can remove your headers over and over without destroying the fragile gasket material as some here seem to have done and thus contend that they aren’t reusable. It’s all in “the method of removal”
You crack all six bolts “just” barely loose. As in “still finger tight”
Then use a rubber mallet or dead blow hammer and rap on the front and rear edge of flanges/pipes parallel with the engine to “crack” the gasket loose from the flat surface of the head. There may be a thin residue of the carbon gasket material still stuck to the head, there may not be, but if any remains it is insignificant.The gasket remains sound. Consider it as leaving a layer of its skin.
Don’t remove all the bolts and drop or pull the header away. That is a sure way to rip them as to be non-reusable. I’ve removed my headers at least six times (as well as the collector extensions for strip time, too many times to remember) over a little over three years time and much run time and they are still going strong. Intact and sealing. If you’re ripping them you ain’t doing it correct.
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